Isabel Marant

The embodiment of Parisian chic on keeping très cool while taking her designs world-wide

Updated Oct. 26, 2012 2:07 p.m. ET

SHE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE to take credit as the inventor of the Parisienne bohemian-meets-tomboy look, but Isabel Marant is undeniably its current Pied Piper. The French designer, who founded her label in 1994 with a collection of jewelry and accessories, has seen her cropped jeans, flippy minidresses and quilted jackets go from in-the-know cult status to being the uniform for cool women world-wide. You can also count on Ms. Marant to provide sublime versions of wardrobe staples like the perfectly slouchy short-sleeve T-shirt or the heather gray sweatshirt in her lower-priced Etoile line—which seem to sell out as soon...